Sam Coleman (Lead)

Casting "The Test," a student film for USC. Synopsis: Detective Johnson has given young Sam has one last chance to get off probation and prove himself as an undercover cop. His ass...more

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Male, ages 23-27, All Ethnicities

Role Description

Sam Coleman: (Lead) a bespectacled and diminutive cop, on probation for going too far above and beyond the call of his municipal duties. This is his last chance to make up for his past mistakes. Classically nerdy with an almost crippling social anxiety, possesses a heart of gold, gilded in his deep desire for romance. Havingbeen bullied all his life, his instinct is to protect the bullied, so despite his fears, he does contain a strength that will surprise everyone, himself most of all, when the time is right. Very comedic, this actor should have experience in comedic roles, improv experience preferred.

BIALYSTOCK (shouts) Who are you? What do you want? Why are you loitering in my hallway? Speak, dummy, speak! Why don't you speak?

BLOOM Scared. Can't talk.

BIALYSTOCK All right. Get a hold of yourself. Take a deep breath, let it out slowly and tell me who you are.

BLOOM (breathes deeply. Words tumble from his mouth as he exhales) I'm Leo Bloom, I'm an accountant, I'm from Whitehall and Marks, I was sent here to do your books and I'm terribly sorry I caught you with the old lady. (he has run out of breath)

BIALYSTOCK "Caught you with the old lady." Come in, Mr. Tact.

BIALYSTOCK So you're an accountant, eh?

BLOOM (timidly) Yes sir.

BIALYSTOCK Then account for yourself! Do you believe in God? Do you believe in gold? Why are you looking up old lady's dresses? Bit of a pervert, eh?

BLOOM Sir, I ...

BIALYSTOCK How dare you condemn me without knowing all the facts.

BLOOM But sir, I'm not condem ...

BIALYSTOCK Shut up. I'm having a rhetorical Conversation

BLOOM But if we're caught, we'll go to prison.

BIALYSTOCK (sensing victory, he marshals his forces for the final assault) You think you're not in prison now? Living in a grey little room. Going to a grey little job. Leading a grey little life.